Selected writings about Karl Ernst von Baer



Agassiz, Louis (1874). Evolution and permanence of type. The Atlantic Monthly, 1874, 92-101.

Berg, Lev S. (1919). A. P. Slovcov i zakon Baera. Izvestiya Russkogo Geograficheskogo Obschestva 1. Petrograd, 157-164.

Blacher, L. J. (1978). Raznoglasiya istorikov biologii v ocenke teoreticheskih, v chastnosti evolyucionnyh, vozzrenij Karla Baera. Folia Baeriana 3: 11-17.

Bunge, Gustav von (1900). Karl Ernst v. Baer's Stellung zur Frage nach der Abstammung des Menschen. Biol. Zbl. 20(7): 224-225.

Churchill, F. B. (1991). Karl Ernst von Baer: The rise of classical descriptive embryology. Developmental Biology 7: 5-12.

-- (1991). The rise of classical descriptive embryology. In: Gilbert, Scott F. (ed.), A Conceptual History of Modern Embryology. New York: Plenum Press, pp. 1-29.

Gould, Stephen Jay (1977). Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge (Mass.): The Belknap Press, xiv+501.

Gutfeldt, Horand (1990). Die Entwicklung des Lebens auf der Erde: die Rolle Karl Ernst von Baers in der Geschichte der Deutungen. Offene Tore 34(5): 193-206.

Haacke, W. (1905). Karl Ernst von Baer. Leipzig, vii+175.

Hammen, L. van der (1983). Unfoldment and manifestation: The natural philosophy of evolution. Acta Biotheoretica 32(3), 179-193.

Hertwig, O. (1909). K. E. v. Baers Leben und Wirken. Internationale Wochenschrift für Wissenschaft 3.

Kongo, Linda (1993). Karl Ernst von Baer als Organisator der Wissenschaft. Folia Baeriana 6: 82-85.

Kull, Kalevi (1998). Baerian biology: evolution by means of organisms' interpretation. In: Farré George L., Oksala Tarkko (eds.). Emergence, Complexity, Hierarchy, Organization. Espoo, 197-200.

-- (1999). Outlines for a post-Darwinian biology. Folia Baeriana 7: 129-142.

Lenoir, Timothy (1982). The Strategy of Life: Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth Century German Biology. Dordrecht: D.Reidel Publishing Company, xii+314.

Lukina, T. A. (ed.) (1978). Iz epistolyarnogo naslediya K. M. Baera v arhivah Evropy. Leningrad, 320.

O'Malley, C. D. (1956). On the genesis of the ovum of mammals and of man by Karl Ernst von Baer. Isis 47: 117-153.

Oppenheimer, Jane M. (1963). K. E. von Baer's beginning insights into casual-analytical relationships. Developmental Biology 7: 11-21.

-- (1967). Essays in the History of Embryology and Biology. MIT Press, Cambridge.

-- (1990). Science and nationality: the case of Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876). Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 134(2): 75-82.

Ospovat, Dov (1976). The influence of Karl Ernst von Baer's embryology, 1828-1859. Journal History of Biology 9: 1-28.

-- (1995 [1981]). The Development of Darwin's Theory: Natural History, Natural Theology, and Natural Selection, 1838-1859. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, xviii+301.

Querner, H. (1977). Karl Ernst von Baer als Anthropologe. In Schröter Peter (ed.). Festschrift 75 Jahre Anthropologische Staatssammlung München. München: Selbstverlag der Anthropologischen Staatssammlung, 301-309.

-- (1978). Karl Ernst von Baer und Thomas Henry Huxley. Sudhoffs Archives 62(1): 131-47.

Poggi, Stefano & Bossi, Maurizio (eds.) 1994. Neurology and biology in the Romantic age in Germany: Carus, Burdach, Gall, von Baer. In Romanticism in Science: Science in Europe, 1790-1840. Dordrecht, 143-160.

Raikov, Boris E. (1968). Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876): Sein Leben und sein Werk. Leipzig, 516.

Reinke, J. (1904). Karl Ernst von Baer als Forscher und Naturphilosoph. Türmer 6: 34-46.

Remmel, Maie (1992). Baer's principles and developmental patterns. In: Kull, Kalevi (ed.), Baer and Modern Biology. Abstracts of the International Conference held in Tartu, 28.2.-2.3.1992. Tartu, p. 42-44.

Remmel, Maie; Volrat, A.; Iho, A.; Kress, M.; Timak, R.; Filippova, M. (1977). Opyt naukometricheskogo analiza nauchnoj deyatel'nosti K. Baera. In: Voprosy mediciny i biologii Pribaltiki. Tartu, 193-196.

Richards, Robert J. (1992). The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, xv+205.

Salthe, Stanley N. (1993). Should prediction or historical uniqueness be the central focus of biology? Folia Baeriana 6: 247-260.

Sarton, George (1931). The discovery of the mammalian egg and the foundation of modern embryology. Isis 16: 315-330.

Seidlitz, Georg (1876). Baer und die Darwin'sche Theorie. In: Beiträge zur Descendenz-Theorie. Leipzig, 37-170.

Slaby, I. (1990). On the validity of von Baer's laws in evolutionary morphology. Folia Morphologica 383: 293-300.

Stieda, L. (1878). Karl Ernst von Baer: Eine biographische Skizze. Braunschweig, 301. [2te Auflage 1886.]

Stölzle, R. (1897). Karl Ernst von Baer und seine Weltanschauung. Regensburg, xi+688.

Svetlov, P. G. (1953). Slovar' terminov K. M. Baera. In: K. Baer. Istoriya Razvitiya Zhivotnyh, 2. Moskva, 516-531.

-- (1973). Pochemu K. Baer, pereehav v Rossiyu, pochti perestal zanimat'sya embriologiej? In: Iz Istorii Biologii 4. Moskva, 187-198.

Tammiksaar, Erki & Stone, I. R. (1997). Karl Ernst von Baer and the Kara Sea 'Eiskeller'. Polar Record 33(186): 239-242.

Teichmüller, Gustav (1877). Darwinismus und Philosophie. Dorpat, vii+90.

Uexküll, Jakob von (1916). Karl Ernst von Baer. In: Das Baltenbuch. Dachau, 17-22.

Vernadsky, V. I. (1927). Pamyati akademika K. M. von Baera. In: Pervyj Sbornik Pamyati Baera (Trudy Komissii po Istorii Znanij). Leningrad, 1-9.


A very extensive bibliography of publications about Baer has been published in Folia Baeriana:
vol. 4: 13-70 (747 entries), with addendums in later volumes -
vol. 5: 88-95 (entries 748-864),
vol. 6: 291-300 (entries 865-1007),
vol. 7: 143-149 (entries 1008-1111).

Look at the bibliography of Baer's own writings.

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